On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Stephan Mueller <smueller@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The kernel_pool is intended to be the in-kernel equivalent to the > blocking_pool, i.e. requests for random data may be blocked if > insufficient entropy is present. I cannot see any reason this would be useful, let alone necessary. Of course /dev/random should block and it seems to me there is a good argument for making both /dev/urandom and get_random_bytes() block until there is emough entropy to seed them well. For everything else, though, a properly seeded PRNG seems adequate so there is no reason to block. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
